MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: Evidence of Obama admin. political surveillance beginning mid 2012

Evidence of Obama Administration Political Surveillance Beginning Mid-2012

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/24/evidence-of-obama-administration-political-surveillance-beginning-mid-2012/

Top Secret FISA Court Order - President Obama Spying on Political Enemies

A newly released court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) found that the National Security Agency, under former President Obama, routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall. In describing the violations, the FISA court said the illegal searches conducted by the NSA under Obama were "widespread" and created a "very serious Fourth Amendment issue." These new discoveries come from a recently unsealed FISA court document dated April 26, 2017 and center around a hearing dated October 26, 2017, just days before the 2016 election, in which the FISA court apparently learned for the first time of "widespread" and illegal spying on American citizens by the NSA under the Obama administration.

https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies

Notable: Did Smollett rat out Hollywood? Top FBI Child Trafficking Chief called in

>>6582353

>>6582284

whoops, forgot the graphic

Top FBI Child Trafficking & Child Prostitution Task Force Chief helped Chicago PD investigate Smollett hoax; Did Jussie Rat Out Hollywood?

The Jussie Smollett case just got even more bizarre with potential troubling revelations.

Internal Chicago Police records show detectives employed a top FBI Supervisory Special Agent specializing in investigating the trafficking of sexually exploited children, child prostitution and aggravated child sexual abuse to help investigate the Smollett assault hoax case.

During early stages of the investigation, records show, Chicago Police shared Intel with the FBI and FBI Special Agent Gregory Wing was working the investigation daily alongside city detectives.

But Wing supervises the Child Sex Crimes and Violent Crimes Against Children squad in the FBI’s Chicago Field Office and is considered one of the top agents investigating child sex trafficking in the country, according to the FBI……

https://truepundit.com/top-fbi-child-sex-trafficking-did-jussie-rat-out-hollywood/

Notable: Notes from the latest on the NXIVM trial

local 'reporter' @AylaFerrone's notes from latest NXIVM Trial transcript

```1)``` The next chunk of testimony is about her upbringing in Mexico and her family. Says she was always a good student, interested in the sciences. Explains in high school her older sister had an eating disorder.

```2)```The witness says she had plans to attend an elite school in Switzerland. Says her parents were taking ESP classes and they had enrolled her in some as well. Her parents gifted her a 16 day intensive as a going away present.

```3)```She says during the intensive she learned about Raniere and was convinced he was the smartest man in the world. She describes more about the intensive and what was said about Raniere.

```4)```Eventually she gave up her scholarship to the school in Switzerland and moved to Albany during V Week of 2002. Says she remembers her first meeting with Raniere and that he knew she was smart. Says it was a special moment for her.

```5)```She describes the stripe path we’ve heard about in previous testimony as well as other inner circle members she met at V Week. Talks about Nancy Salzman and describes her as “a little bit frightening.”

```6)```She now describes the enrollment process of NXIVM/ESP which we’ve also heard about in previous testimony. Essentially structured like a MLM scheme. Says while she was in Albany she stayed with Edgar Boone.

```7)```Says she was being taught to do some programming by upper level NXIVM members. Says she would make herself useful in any way she could including cleaning.

```8)```Eventually her older sister got in some trouble in Mexico and was sent to Albany to live with her and take care of her. Says her sister was depressed for a while but then started going to ESP classes.

```9)``` Now she’s talking about volleyball nights. Says she always went to see Raniere but was too shy to talk to him. Says it was an opportunity to have more personal contact. She ended up having a deeper conversation with him later in 2003.

```10)```Says she was considering going back to school and that Raniere was very attentive to her concerns. Says he gave her a brain teaser and told her to get back to him when she solved it. She said this was exciting for her. She wanted to show off.

```11)``` Says she solved it before he left that night and he was impressed. Says after this there was more one on one contact. Raniere also offered to tutor her. Told her not to go back to school. This is where they take a mid-morning break.

3:38 PM - 24 May 2019

https://twitter.com/aylaferrone/status/1132052162308116482?s=21

Notable: Space Force clears Senate Committee after House attempt to stall

Space Force Clears Senate Committee After House Attempt to Stall

https://www.govexec.com/defense/2019/05/space-force-clears-senate-committee-after-house-attempt-stall/157246/?oref=channelriver

Notable: , >>6582326 Past Americans charged with treason

>>6582142

Has almost never happened. I just don’t see it being used in todays society.

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

("Attainder of treason" referred to a practice in Europe at the time of impoverishing, ostracizing and banishing a traitor's family and descendants.)

Aaron Burr — third vice president of the United States, 1801-05, planned a Mexican "empire," 1807.

Sidelined politically and embittered after he killed archrival Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, Burr conspired with Gen. James Wilkinson to invade Mexico and establish an empire.

Wilkinson turned him in, and Burr was tried for treason in 1807, based on an accusation that his empire was to include parts of the western United States. Chief Justice John Marshall, who acquitted Burr, said that to prove treason, "war must actually be levied against the United States … conspiracy (to levy war) is not treason."

Thomas W. Dorr — Rhode Island rebel, 1841-42.

Dorr is the only man to be convicted of treason against a state, Rhode Island. He led an uprising against Gov. Samuel King because the state was still adhering to its pre-Revolutionary constitution, and had not enfranchised non-property owners or established a bill of rights. His supporters elected him governor in 1842 in an extralegal convention, and for a while Rhode Island had two administrations. King had him tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in 1844. The same year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction against claims that one could not commit treason against a state. Dorr was pardoned in 1845, and his reforms were soon adopted.

Max Haupt — Father of a saboteur, 1942.

Haupt was the father of Herbert Haupt, one of eight Nazi saboteurs convicted by a military tribunal in 1942, and one of six executed. The elder Haupt was charged in 1943 with treason for "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy because he had harbored his son in his Chicago apartment, bought him a car and found him a job, knowing that he planned sabotage.

Max Haupt didn't dispute the facts – it was he who had volunteered the information to the FBI in a fruitless attempt to show that his son was manipulated by others. Instead, the father argued that he had committed the "commonplace, insignificant and colorless" acts of a father. A jury convicted Haupt in 1944, but recommended mercy; he was spared death, and was sentenced to life.

Upholding the conviction in 1947, Supreme Court Judge Robert Jackson said: "It is argued that Haupt merely had the misfortune to sire a traitor … the jury apparently concluded that the son had the misfortune of being a chip off the old block."

Tomoya Kawakita, the tormentor who came home, World War II.

Kawakita, born in California, went to Japan in 1939 when he was 18 to visit his grandfather. He stayed, never renouncing his U.S. citizenship. He was employed as an interpreter with a Japanese nickel company. He was never conscripted, but Japanese authorities used him as an interpreter in a prisoner of war camp.

He readily joined in the abuse of American prisoners, "going beyond any conceivable duty of an interpreter," according to the U.S. Supreme Court. He beat some, pushed another into a cesspool and forced the obviously ill into hard labor.

After the war, he re-registered as a U.S. citizen and returned home. His former victims, who knew him as "Meatball," spotted him and turned him in, and he was sentenced to death for treason in 1952. President Eisenhower commuted his sentence to life in 1953.

Notable: Pelosi calling for an assination? Graphic

Pelosi: "IT’S REALLY BAD, ASSASSINATE."

Notable: More layoffs at Newsweak

More Layoffs at Newsweek :)

Notable: Epstein sex abuse victims ask Acosta to explain his actions

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article230708394.html

Notable: , >>6581974 Soros' foundation culpable in the opioid crisis? New report

Soros' Open Society Foundations…

Culpable in the opioid crisis per a new bipartisan congressional report on exposing the pharma industry's influence on the World Health Organization.

See page 20…

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6025139/May-22-Report-Congress.pdf

Notable: Do you even lift bans bro? CrossFit boycotts FB after group banned

CrossFit Boycotts Facebook After 1.65 Million Strong Facebook Group Is Banned

Today the popular workout and diet program CrossFit announced its decision to discontinue all use of Facebook after one of its affiliate groups, which had over 1.65 million users in its Facebook group, was banned from the platform without explanation.

After the Banting7DayMealPlan Facebook group was banned without explanation, CrossFit announced its decision to end all use of both Facebook and Instagram in an apparent boycott.

According to CrossFit, the group was used by over 1.65 million users to share advice, testimonials, and provide encouragement to users pursuing the CrossFit health plan.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/crossfit-boycotts-facebook-after-1-65-million-strong-facebook-group-is-banned/

Notable: ‘Everyone else must take my place’: Assange in letter from British prison

‘Everyone else must take my place’: Assange in letter from British prison

In a handwritten letter from Belmarsh prison, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange says he is being denied a chance to defend himself and that elements in the US that “hate truth, liberty and justice” want him extradited and dead.

The letter was sent to independent British journalist Gordon Dimmack. It was dated May 13 – ten days before the US announced 17 additional charges under the Espionage Act against the jailed whistleblower.

In light of the new indictment, Dimmack read out the letter in a YouTube video. A photo of the handwritten note was soon posted online as well.

“I have been isolated from all ability to prepare to defend myself: no laptop, no internet, ever, no computer, no library, so far, but even if I get access it will just be for a half an hour, with everyone else, once a week,” Assange wrote. “The other side? A superpower that has been preparing for 9 years, with hundreds of people and untold millions spent on the case.”

Assange was arrested on April 11, after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and UK police seized him from the Latin American country’s embassy in London. He was sentenced to 50 weeks behind bars for skipping bail, and sent to Belmarsh, a prison south of London once dubbed 'British Guantanamo' for being used to jail terrorism suspects.

I am defenseless.

“I am unbroken, albeit literally surrounded by murderers, but, the days where I could read and speak and organize to defend myself, my ideals, and my people are over until I am free! Everyone else must take my place,” Assange wrote in the letter.

The WikiLeaks publisher had sought refuge in Ecuador in 2012, claiming – correctly, as it turned out – that trumped-up charges in Sweden would be used to get him extradited to the US. A secret indictment of Assange, only made public in March, charged him with violating the Espionage Act over the 2010 publication of secret US military and diplomatic documents.

“The US government, or rather, those regrettable elements in it that hate truth, liberty and justice, want to cheat their way into my extradition and death, rather than letting the public hear the truth, for which I have won the highest awards in journalism and have been nominated 7 times for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Assange wrote.

Truth, ultimately, is all we have.

The new charges against Assange have alarmed even the mainstream media outlets that have spent years pouring vitriol on WikiLeaks, as they began to realize his prosecution along those lines would essentially criminalize all journalism. However, because Assange and WikiLeaks have been demonized by advocates of the Russiagate conspiracy theory as “agents of the Kremlin” and spies, media pushback against the charges has been muted at best.

https://www.rt.com/news/460215-assange-letter-from-prison/

Notable: >>6581271 3:22 PM ET timestamp on CNN AF1 article

>>6581154

Time stamp: 322

Msg?

By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN

'Updated 3:22 PM ET'

Fri May 24, 2019

Notable: planefag - E-4B night-watch in route with POTUS in AF-1

looks like E-4B night-watch in route with POTUS in AF-1

Notable: >>6581111 anons and Beer at the Parade show why were are ANON - it is our Humanity

No sir - WRWY.

I do not take joy in the suffering of others. We understand pain and suffering. Anyone who has been where you were, will understand…

https://twitter.com/beer_parade/status/1132044966241472516

Something that has helped me:

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Notable: CNN currently sending message? Why include a pic of JFK getting off of AF1…

CNN currently sending message? Why include a pic of JFK getting off of AF1 on the day he was assassinated with a story about Trump's trip to Japan?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/politics/donald-trump-air-force-one-travel-foreign-trips/index.html

Notable: update/log of NXIVM political and Clinton ties

Moar Yuge NXIVM political and Clinton ties

Nancy Salzman

Pamela Cafritz and Karen Unterreiner

Mark Vicente

The writer/producer/director of "What the Bleep Do We Know"

Roger Stone

Linda Evans - actress

Richard L. Mays - Clinton pal and fundraiser

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/clinton-friend-fundraiser-active-sex-cult-hacked-hillarys-emails/

Steve Pigeon - former Erie County Democratic Party chairman

Sara and Clare Bronfman

Alfonse D'Amato

The former NY Senator's lobbying and public affairs firm, Park Strategies, was hired for undisclosed reasons by NXIVM board member Clare Bronfman.

Joseph L. Bruno - former NY Senate Majority Leader

Jack Casey

Bruno's former Senate lawyer, the past Rensselaer County Republican Party chairman.

Antonia Novello- former NY state Health Commissioner

Richard Branson

English business magnate with Virgin Group has been enrolled.

Goldie Hawn - actress

Markham Group

The Arkansas-based political advisors, which has advised several presidents, has also been hired by NXIVM or one or both of the Bronfman sisters.

Lama Tenzin Dhonden

The emissary for the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama

Wrote a foreword for a book Raniere co-wrote with a NXIVM follower that was published around the time of the spiritual leader's visit to Albany in 2009.

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/NXIVM-courts-rich-powerful-and-influential-3253818.php

Over 18 months, the Markham Group produced 1,500 plus public events for Secretary Clinton and her 10 major surrogates including President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Senator Tim Kaine and his wife Secretary Anne Holton, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Our events ranged in size from press conferences to Secretary Clinton’s largest rallies that served as the everyday face of the campaign. The events resulted in millions of dollar’s worth of earned media and were heralded by many media outlets including, but not limited, to the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times.

https://www.markhamgroup.com/case-studies/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-campaign/

D'Amato is a lobbyist, and he is close to Gillibrand. When he was the Republican Senator, Gillibrand interned in his office. D'Amato was there the day Gillibrand was appointed to replace former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton in 2009, standing center-stage.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/244196-longs-hurdle-gillibrand-damato-connection/

https://culteducation.com/group/907-nxivm/6066-political-connections-take-to-the-air.html

Notable: Dig on NP. (graphic)

baker notable

graphic dig into Pelosi crime family and various connections within US politics/swamp. Soros connections to pelosi graphic included as well.

Notable: DJT Tweet: Dems want a second shot at Mueller.

NEW DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132038993682419712

Notable: Memers call to action.

>>6580302

Love the bread title, Baker! Thanks!

One might almost wanna put pepe faces on the fish being fed these crumbs.

Notable: China dealing with grain destroying worm.

China might want to sign that trade deal soon. Starving people like to revolt against their governments.

https://twitter.com/kannbwx/status/1131924880364957696

Notable: SEC whistleblower gets $4.5 Million.

Former Brazil Surgeon Turned SEC Whistleblower Gets $4.5 Million

A former Brazilian surgeon who blew the whistle on a medical device company that allegedly bribed doctors to win business will get a $4.5 million award from U.S. regulators, according to his lawyers.

The surgeon will get the money for playing a crucial role in helping the Securities and Exchange Commission uncover a bribery scandal at Biomet Inc. that spanned the globe, his attorneys Christopher Connors and Andy Rickman said in a Friday statement that didn’t identify the doctor by name.

"Today’s award will spur many would-be foreign whistleblowers to come forward now that they know that the SEC is committed to rewarding whistleblowers” for tips tied to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act anti-bribery law, said Connors and Rickman.

Biomet, which has paid tens of millions of dollars to the U.S. government to settle charges of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, is now named Zimmer Biomet.

The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The SEC separately issued a statement Friday that said it was granting more than $4.5 million to a whistleblower who reported “significant wrongdoing” to the regulator after filing an anonymous tip internally to a company. SEC rules prevent the agency from naming whistleblowers or even identifying the specific enforcement actions that trigger awards.

The Dodd-Frank Act required the SEC to start a whistleblower program. The agency can give tipsters as much as 30% of any fine for cases that lead to sanctions exceeding $1 million. The regulator says it has awarded more than $380 million since 2012.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-24/former-brazil-surgeon-turned-sec-whistleblower-gets-4-5-million

Notable: Clinton advisor realizes her book is based on a falsehood.

Listen To The Awkward Moment This Clinton Advisor Realized Her Book Was Based On A Falsehood

A former advisor to Bill Clinton and Al Gore may have set a record for fastest discrediting of a book when a BBC interviewer showed her the central thesis was based on a misreading of legal terminology.

Naomi Wolf’s book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love,” which is not even out for another month, makes the claim that the British government continued to execute people for sodomy long after it was previously thought the practice ended. Wolf looked at records from the Old Bailey and saw the term “death recorded,” a term she realizes in this interview actually refers to cases in which a sentence of death is passed but suspended.

Wolf claims to have found “several dozen executions.” Her research, she claims, “corrects a misapprehension that is in every website that the last man was executed for sodomy in Britain in 1835.”

“I don’t think you’re right about this,” the BBC’s Matthew Sweet replied to her in the interview.

The presenter pointed to the case of Thomas Silver in 1859. Wolf claims in her book that Silver was executed, but he was not. “Death recorded” meant that a judge used judicial discretion to suspend a death sentence, a practice in use since the 1820s.

“I don’t think any of the executions you’ve identified here actually happened,” Sweet added.

“That’s a really important thing to investigate,” Wolf replied. (RELATED: The Trumpire Strikes Back)

Sweet also added that the offense in question hardly makes a good example of same-sex love being criminalized, as it involved a 14 year-old’s “indecent assault” on a six year-old boy.

Wolf is a Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar who did graduate work at Oxford.

Sweet, for his part, has since started a thread on Twitter explaining more in depth where he thinks Wolf went wrong.

https://twitter.com/thymetikon/status/1131702577878503425

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/naomi-wolf-bbc-interview-book-clinton-advisor/

Notable: DOJ files charges against two owners of Doctor's Choice.

@TheJusticeDept 8:12 AM - 24 May 2019

United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Home Health Agency and Two of Its Owners

The United States has filed a complaint in intervention against Doctor’s Choice Home Care Inc (Doctor’s Choice), Timothy Beach, and Stuart Christensen alleging False Claims Act violations arising from the alleged payment of kickbacks in the form of sham medical director agreements and payments to the spouses of referring physicians, the Department of Justice today announced. Doctor’s Choice is a home health agency based in Sarasota, Florida. Timothy Beach and Stuart Christensen are partial owners of Doctor’s Choice.

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1131940984055635968

Notable: John Brennan's thesaurus didn't come with a sense of humor.

Brennan starting to gin

Reading the supporting tweets is astounding. People still actually believe Trump is going to prison.

https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan

Notable: DJT Tweet: Strong Republicans, record territory and have a great Memorial Weekend.

NEW DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131998750354731008

Notable: >>6580682, >>6580772 Comey distress signal?

New Comey Tweet

Hidden Msg?

Notable: FBI crime stats tool.

9:45 AM - 24 May 2019@FBI

Researching crime stats and viewing crime data is easier with the #FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. View interactive data across the nation from any device. Search, sort, and view trends by state and types of crime. Learn more at https://www.fbi.gov/cde .

https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1131964443523465216

9:45 AM - 24 May 2019

Notable: Utah judge suspended for 6 months after making anti-Trump comments.

Utah Judge Suspended for 6 Months After Making Anti-Trump Comments

A judge has been suspended for six months without pay after the Utah Supreme Court upheld a decision to discipline the judicial officer for his politically-charged and anti-Trump comments. Judge Michael Kwan admitted that he had violated the Utah Code of Judicial Conduct on a number of occasions when he made “shirty and politically charged comments to a defendant in his courtroom,” lost his temper with a member of the court’s staff, and criticized then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on social media, according to the court’s decision.

In an opinion handed down on May 24, the Supreme Court ruled that Kwan’s conduct “diminishes the reputation of our entire judiciary.” “Judge Kwan’s behavior denigrates his reputation as an impartial, independent, dignified, and courteous jurist who takes no advantage of the office in which he serves,” the court wrote. They added that the Taylorsville Justice Court judge had previously been disciplined for other violations of the code including a “crass in-court reference to sexual conduct and a former president of the United States,” the opinion said. The Judicial Conduct Commission subsequently handed down the suspension, before the judge challenged it at the state’s highest court.

He argued that the six months suspension is an unconstitutional attempt to regulate his protected speech and that a lesser penalty like probation is more appropriate. But the court said, “the problem here is not primarily a concern that Judge Kwan has voiced his views on a range of political issues via his criticisms of Donald Trump” instead it was because his conduct was inconsistent to the public’s expectation that a judge “decide[s] issues with utmost fairness, independence, and impartiality.” “[A] judge must at times set aside the power of his or her voice—which becomes inextricably tied to his or her position—as a tool to publicly influence the results of a local, regional, or national election,” the opinion stated.

Kwan faced investigations for an exchange with a defendant he made in 2017 in his courtroom, where he appeared to demean the defendant as well as Trump’s immigration and tax policies.

Judge: So, what happened with your fine payments? Defendant: So, I, just, live paycheck to paycheck . . . . Judge: Ok. So, when you set up the pay plan you were hoping you would have the money and it didn’t pan out that way? Defendant: And I did not call, but I plan on when I get my taxes to just pay off all my court fines, because I cannot end up in jail again for not complying. Judge: You do realize that we have a new president, and you think we are getting any money back? Defendant: I hope. Judge: You hope? Defendant: I pray and I cross my fingers. Judge: Ok. Prayer might be the answer. ‘Cause, he just signed an order to start building the wall and he has no money to do that, and so if you think you are going to get taxes back this year, uh-yeah, maybe, maybe not. But don’t worry[,] there is a tax cut for the wealthy so if you make over $500,000 you’re getting a tax cut. You’re right[] there[,] right? Pretty close? All[]right, so do you have a plan? Other than just get the tax cut and pay it off?

Kwan’s suspension also related to his 2016 comments and shared articles on his Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. He also continued to make similar comments about Trump following the presidential election, which the court described as comments “laden with blunt, and sometimes indelicate, criticism [about Trump].”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/utah-judge-suspended-for-6-months-after-making-anti-trump-comments_2935739.html

Notable: Wis. man who kidnapped Closs gets life sentence.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1132024103152627712?s=19

Notable: Marketfag report.

US Market Report

Volumes the usual story-low

Some headlines

New rule would let U.S. companies sue foreign rivals over currency weakness

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-rule-would-let-us-companies-sue-foreign-rivals-over-currency-weakness-2019-05-24?

JPMorgan's Kolanovic Sees a ‘Trump Collar’ on U.S. Stock Market

https://www.bloomberg.com//news/articles/2019-05-24/jpmorgan-s-kolanovic-sees-a-trump-collar-on-u-s-stock-market?srnd=markets-vp

for once I agree with someone from this place.

China remains best YTD followed by Europe and US the slight laggard.

Chinese stocks were lower on the week with tech-heavy indices hit hardest.

wait until next week….

European markets were all lower on the week, led by Italy.

"Most Shorted" Stocks had their 3rd weekly loss in a row - the biggest 3-week drop of the year - as Tuesday's short-squeeze couldn't last.

hope you short anons took some of your gains-holding over the weekend always risky-good luck in either case-o7

Technology stocks overall were whacked.

Energy stocks are down 7 weeks in a row.

this solely down to oil and it's drop and meandering prior.

Musk had a bad week.

On paper he lost about $167m-suckers.

Credit markets blew wider this week even as VIX ended the week almost unchanged.

This insurance against asset failure-this is getting to 2008 levels quickly.

The problem here is that Wall St has leveraged itself into oblivion and is trying to insure it now against reality.

Treasury yields took a breather today (and a half day ahead of Memorial Day) after a breathless plunge midweek.

Quite the ride-see Cap#3

Slamming yields to multi-year lows.

The yield curve crashed back into inversion this week.

mmmmmkay….it's coming.

And ugly week for WTI crude (and copper) with PMs managing gains.

Nanook clubbed copper today-don't eat da yellow snow.

Finally, The Fed has a problem - how's it going to be able to support the market when investors are already pricing in 45bps of rate cuts for 2019.

See Cap#4-danger Will Robinson-for them at least.

But there is a silver lining…It’s going to cost you less to refill the propane tank for your gas grill this Memorial Day weekend. Propane prices have plunged this month, reaching their lowest level in more than 2 1/2 years.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/stocks-suffer-worst-streak-8-years-trade-tempest-sparks-rates-rout

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI

Have a great weekend fellow anons- it's an honor to be able to share these times with you.

Notable: >>6580683 Madera County woman pleads guilty to aiding and abetting production of child pornography.

Madera County Woman Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Production of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/madera-county-woman-pleads-guilty-aiding-and-abetting-production-child-pornography

Notable: Donald Trump to skip Scotland during UK visit.

Come on POTUS, change your mind. Turnberry and Aberdeen are both easy to get to for me.

Seen AF1 land at Prestwick last year, awesome sight.

Donald Trump to skip Scotland during UK visit

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trump-to-skip-scotland-during-uk-visit-1-4934411?fbclid=IwAR3FXHGRjNMSgFzr7Mboq0f-SM2SRWH9Y-_NlNsV7mD0oDbKC2dx6O7Gu6s

Notable: Missing persons missing children reports drop to lowest in decades.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/missing-persons-missing-children-reports-drop-to-lowest-in-decades_2934122.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Notable: Coats statement on Barr's authority to declas.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said that he is “confident” Attorney General Bill Barr will “protect” classified info while the intelligence community cooperates with him, in a Friday statement addressing Trump’s decision to allow Barr to publicize intelligence relating to the start of the Russia probe.

Coats also said that the intelligence community will “continue” to share “apolitical intelligence” with the rest of the government.

The statement comes one day after the President issued an order to the CIA and the rest of the country’s intelligence agencies to cooperate with Justice Department investigations examining the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Trump delegated huge authority in the order to Barr, who now has the power to declassify documents that he receives from the intelligence community without additional review.

“I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the [intelligence community] in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk,” Coats said.

House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff called Trump’s order a “corrupt escalation” of a bid to “weaponize and politicize the nation’s intelligence and law enforcement entities” in a Friday statement.

“The potential selective release of material that implicates sources and methods will undermine the Intelligence Community’s efforts to gather intelligence, including on future attacks on our elections as well as other key intelligence targets, putting not only sources at risk, but the nation’s security along with them,” Schiff said.

Trump’s order marks the latest in a series of escalating steps he’s taken towards investigating the investigators. That strategy began as a narrative that Republicans deployed to counter the Mueller investigation, alleging “spying” by the Obama Administration on the Trump campaign.

But with Barr promising to take on the “spying” allegations himself, this appears to have mutated into a full-fledged probe of its own. The Attorney General said at a May 1 hearing before Congress that he “envision[s] some kind of reporting at the end of this.”

Sauce: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/dni-feels-need-to-express-confidence-in-barrs-secret-keeping-skills

Notable: Declas makes Mark Warner nervous.

Crooked Dem Senator Mark Warner Lashes Out at AG Bill Barr Following Trump’s Declassification Order

President Trump really sent the rats scurrying with his declassification order — every corrupt official involved in Spygate is panicking.

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) lashed out at Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday following the President’s declassification order of Spygate documents.

The incredibly corrupt Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Panel accused Bill Barr of “selectively releasing information” in order to mislead the American people.

“We still don’t have the full Mueller report, so of course the President gives sweeping declassification powers to an Attorney General who has already shown that he has no problem selectively releasing information in order to mislead the American people,” Mark Warner said in a tweet Friday morning.

We still don’t have the full Mueller report, so of course the President gives sweeping declassification powers to an Attorney General who has already shown that he has no problem selectively releasing information in order to mislead the American people.

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) May 24, 2019

President Trump stunned the Deep State-media complex Thursday evening when he ordered declassification of the intelligence related to the spying on his presidential campaign in 2016.

President Trump on Thursday evening announced that at the recommendation of Attorney General Bill Barr, he has directed the Intel Community to quickly and fully cooperate with Barr’s investigation into surveillance activities.

The first batch of declassification documents are said to include the ‘bucket 5’ — FBI documents of recorded conversations exonerating Trump campaign officials George Papadopoulos and Carter Page prior to the FBI obtaining their first FISA warrant.

Mark Warner’s panel investigated so-called ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ for over two years so he knows there was no such conspiracy.

Trump’s declassification order will expose the truth which is why Warner, who tried to set up a secret backchannel to dossier author Christopher Steele is panicking.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/crooked-dem-senator-mark-warner-lashes-out-at-ag-bill-barr-following-trumps-declassification-order/

Notable: Ukrainian Deep State presents new President with a list of 'red lines'.

West-backed think tanks threaten new Ukrainian president with disturbing list of ‘RED LINES’

When President Volodymyr Zelensky won a landslide victory in the free and undisputed April elections, most accepted that he was given a fairly strong mandate to lead Ukraine. But it seems not everyone is so democratically-minded.

Particularly unmoved by the democratic process are a collection of Ukrainian 'civil society' groups, who have just issued a lengthy list of “red lines not to be crossed” by the new president, lest he risk provoking a new wave of political instability – that they would presumably instigate.

Issuing their catalog of demands on Thursday, the groups claim to be “politically neutral” but “deeply concerned” about the first actions taken by the comedian-turned-politician Zelensky, including his decision to appoint members of former President Viktor Yanukovych's government to positions within his own government.

A scan of the undersigned reveals that many of these “civil society groups” are anything but politically neutral. In fact, quite a few of them are partly funded by the US government, various EU governments (including the UK), the European Commission itself – and, of course, the omnipresent liberal billionaire George Soros.

Lhe list includes the notorious Euromaidan Press, Stop Fake and Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, to name just a few. In their heyday, many of these groups acted as propaganda tools of the Western-backed government of Petro Poroshenko, rather than the watchdogs they claim to be. They now confirm that a pesky election isn’t going to stand in the way of their agenda, reaffirming that their own “principles and positions” on issues remain unchanged and warning:

Should [Zelensky] cross these red lines, such actions will inevitably lead to political instability in our country…

This statement, which precedes the wide-ranging list of red lines, reads like a threat: Do what we say, or there will be trouble. Isn’t that a strange, almost dictatorial approach for groups purporting to be interested in "democracy," "freedom," and "dignity”? Did we all miss the part where a group of think tanks were collectively elected president of Ukraine?

https://www.rt.com/news/460210-ukraine-ngos-zelensky-red-lines/

Notable: >>6580560 DJT Tweet: Kek.

>>6580302

TYB

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132018969664139264

Notable: Planefag update: AF1 headed towards Alaska.

AF1 heading towards Alaska

fighter refuel kc now up.

suck it cabal , not this time faggots .

Notable: 245 marker.

245s on 5/24

Tom Cotton

Thank you, @realDonaldTrump! The Old Guard soldiers were honored to have you & @FLOTUS join them for Flags In, when they placed 245,000 flags in the cemetery. Read more about The Old Guard of Arlington in Sacred Duty!

https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1132003810707156992

US Navy

Flag 245

https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1131883041679450115

DJT Previous

On 245 occasions, former FBI Director James Comey told House investigators he didn’t know, didn’t recall, or couldn’t remember things when asked. Opened investigations on 4 Americans (not 2) - didn’t know who signed off and didn’t know Christopher Steele. All lies!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071760971088228352

Q245

Hussein is evil and a real loser.

No special treatment.

Shopping around for a (new) handler/protection is fun to watch on the SATs / spy comms.

Morons, all of them.

Q

Notable: Lokhova sues Halper for defamation.

STEFAN HALPER IS SUED BY CAMBRIDGE ACADEMIC LINKED TO MICHAEL FLYNN

*A Cambridge academic is suing FBI informant Stefan Halper and several major news organizations for defamation.

*Svetlana Lokhova is accusing Halper of planting false information about her brief interactions in 2014 with Michael Flynn during an event at Cambridge.

*Lokhova was the subject of several stories in 2017 that suggested she had improper contacts with Flynn. She believes that Halper, who has since been outed as an FBI informant who targeted the Trump campaign, planted the rumors about her in order to further the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

A Russian-British academic is suing FBI informant Stefan Halper for defamation over what she claims is a conspiracy to smear her and former national security adviser Michael Flynn through the media, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The academic, Svetlana Lokhova, is also suing several news organizations she accuses of publishing false information provided by Halper, a former Cambridge professor.

“Stefan Halper is a ratfucker and a spy,

who embroiled an innocent woman in a conspiracy to undo the 2016 Presidential election and topple the President of the United States of America,” Lokhova wrote in the lawsuit, which she filed in federal court in Virginia.

Lokhova asserts that Halper worked with the FBI and “political operatives” at Cambridge to seed stories about her interactions with Flynn at a dinner hosted at the storied British university on Feb. 28, 2014, when Flynn served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

The stories were planted, she claims, in order to “fuel and further the now debunked and dead narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.”

She claims that Halper, who served in four Republican administrations, spread false allegations and insinuations in the press and at Cambridge that she was a Russian agent who had attempted to recruit Flynn at the dinner. Stories that appeared in the press beginning in 2017 hinted that she used sex to lure the retired lieutenant general.

The lawsuit does not provide direct evidence that Halper was behind news stories about Lokhova. But Lokhova pieces together clues in news reports that point to Halper’s role in raising questions about the 2014 dinner. She also claims that colleagues and reporters have told her that Halper has spread rumors about her.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/stefan-halper-michael-flynn-lokhova/

Notable: >>6580081 More detail on Microsoft's proposed election software.

Microsoft’s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections

“The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take whatever you want.’ It’s obviously dangerous.” — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine

Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to “protect” American elections from interference, which it has named “ElectionGuard.” The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some state governments for the 2020 general election. Though it has been heavily promoted by the mainstream media in recent weeks, none of those reports have disclosed that ElectionGuard has several glaring conflicts of interest that greatly undermine its claim aimed at protecting U.S. democracy.

In this investigation, MintPress will reveal how ElectionGuard was developed by companies with deep ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities and Israeli military intelligence, as well as the fact that it is far from clear that the technology would prevent foreign or domestic interference with, or the manipulation of, vote totals or other aspects of American election systems.

Election forensics analyst and author Jonathan Simon as well as investigative journalist Yasha Levine, who has written extensively on how the military has long sought to weaponize public technologies including the internet, were consulted for their views on ElectionGuard, its connections to the military-industrial complex and the implication of those connections for American democracy as part of this investigation.

In January, MintPress published an exposé that later went viral on a news-rating company known as Newsguard. Officially aimed at fighting “fake news,” the company’s many connections to U.S. intelligence, a top neoconservative think tank, and self-admitted government propagandists revealed its real intention was to promote corporate media over independent alternatives.

Newsguard was among the first initiatives that comprise Microsoft’s “Defending Democracy” program, a program that the tech giant created under the auspices of protecting American “democratic processes from cyber-enabled interference [which] have become a critical concern.” Through its partnership with Microsoft, Newsguard has been installed in public libraries and universities throughout the country, even while private-sector companies have continued to avoid adopting the problematic browser plug-in.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-electionguard-a-trojan-horse-for-a-military-industrial-takeover-of-us-elections/258732/

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Notable: Army to promote hundreds of PSYOP soldiers at Fort Bragg.

Army to Promote Hundreds of PSYOP Soldiers at Fort Bragg

The Army's 1st Special Forces Command is scheduled to promote 300 psychological operations sergeants at a record-breaking promotion ceremony May 31 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

"It will be the largest single promotion ceremony ever conducted for an Army Special Operations military occupational specialty," according to a recent news release from 1st Special Forces Command.

Maj. Gen. John Deedrick, commander of 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), will preside over the ceremony, which will result in a redesign in the rank structure for PSYOP units within the command, the release states.

A recent review found that the current PSYOP rank authorizations were inadequate to account for soldiers with extensive training and education in influence theory, human dynamics, psychology, sociology, language, culture and politics, according to the release.

PSYOP noncommissioned officers are expected to operate successfully in austere environments and have a primary mission to persuade local populations to support U.S. military forces. They are expected to interact with U.S. ambassadors, senior country team members, and host-nation officials on a daily basis, the release states.

"That extensive investment in PSYOP soldiers, combined with the operating environments in which these soldiers perform and the importance and sensitivity of their missions, warranted an increase in rank," it adds.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/24/army-promote-hundreds-psyop-soldiers-fort-bragg.html

Notable: China takes over an insolvent bank.

For The First Time Ever, China Takes Over An Insolvent Bank

There was a time when in the years following the financial crisis, every Friday the FDIC would report of one or more small and not small banks failing, as their liabilities exceeded their assets, who were taken over by larger peers with a taxpayer subsidy to cover the shortfall. And while this weekly event, also known as "FDIC Failure Friday" has faded from the US for now, it has made a grand appearance in China.

China’s financial regulators said on Friday the country’s banking and insurance regulator and the central bank, will take control of the small, troubled inner Mongolia-based Baoshang Bank due to the serious credit risks it poses. The regulator’s control of Baoshang will last for a year starting on Friday, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) said on their websites.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/it-begins-first-time-ever-china-takes-over-insolvent-bank

Notable: >>6579857 USMC Tweet: Be safe this weekend. (video)

>>6579857 U.S. Marines @USMC

Whatever you drive…or ride this weekend, be safe!

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1132000058105315329

(U.S. Marine Corps video by Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.)

12:07 PM - 24 May 2019

Notable: McKinsey tries to mitigate: opioid crisis.

After Helping OxyContin Maker 'Turbocharge' Sales, McKinsey Cuts Ties With Purdue Pharma

McKinsey's reputation has taken a beating over the past year, largely thanks to a flurry of New York Times' stories detailing the secretive consulting giant's work with authoritarian governments, while exposing conflicts of interest involving the firm's bankruptcy business and its internal hedge fund (the former led to a wrist-slap fine from the DoJ).

Unwilling to countenance another PR hit, McKinsey has apparently tried to head off more questions about the firm's commitment to ethical business practices by announcing that it has cut ties with Purdue Pharma and all other businesses involved in the sale of opioid pain pills.

The fact that McKinsey and other consulting firms haven't faced more of a backlash for their work with opioid makers is, frankly, surprising, as details from the Massachusetts AG's lawsuit against Purdue would suggest: During Mckinsey's decade-long relationship with Purdue, the consulting firm helped the OxyContin maker boost sales and circumvent government efforts to tighten restrictions.

According to Bloomberg, which quoted from the Massachusetts lawsuit, McKinsey even formulated a pitch that it said would help Purdue "turbocharge" sales.

But McKinsey isn't the only big firm cutting ties with Purdue this week. JP Morgan, which was among the banks that treid to 'limit' ties to gun-makers and sellers after the Parkland shooting, has told Purdue that it will need to do its banking somewhere else.

JPM's decision makes it "the most high-profile corporation known to have distanced itself from Purdue and its wealthy owners, the Sackler family," Reuters said. JPM reportedly informed Purdue back in March that it had six months to find another bank. It has reportedly tapped Dallas-based regional bank Comerica to handle its financial transactions. JPM reportedly told Purdue that its decision was motivated by 'reputational risks'. Though it never lent money to Purdue, JPM's commercial bank manged the company's cash and bill payments.

Many museums and nonprofits have already cut ties with the Sacklers, who were known for their philanthropy.

Unfortunately for Purdue (and maybe for McKinsey given its bankruptcy business), cultivating new banking relationships might not be a problem in the very near future: The company is reportedly considering filing for bankruptcy to avoid payouts in the roughly 2,000 lawsuits accusing it of misleading doctors and patients about the addictive qualities of OxyContin. The company and its owners, the Sackler family, have already reached a nearly $300 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/after-helping-oxycontin-maker-turbocharge-sales-mckinsey-cuts-ties-purdue-pharma

Notable: POTUS memo: Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015

Memorandum on Delegation of Function under the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015, as Amended

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the function vested in the President by section 102(d) of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–102), as amended by the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–272) (collectively, the “Acts”).

The function delegated by this memorandum shall be exercised in coordination with departments and agencies through the National Security Presidential Memorandum-4 process. Any reference in this memorandum to the Acts shall be deemed to be a reference to any future Act that is the same or substantially the same as such provision.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-delegation-function-hizballah-international-financing-prevention-act-2015-amended/

Notable: Schiff going to get his declas.

THIS DIDN'T AGE WELL

Notable: >>6579942 POTUS bypasses congress on SA/UAE arms sale.

==POTUS Bypasses Congress To Approve $8 Billion In Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia, UAE

Not long after he reportedly agreed to send another 1,500-2,000 troops to the Middle East in yet another show of strength to combat an increasingly belligerent Iran, President Trump steamrolled Congress on Friday to approve $8 billion in arms sales to the UAE and Saudi Arabia and expedite delivery, WSJ reports.

The administration invoked a rarely used provision of American arms control laws to bypass Congress and approve the weapons sales, citing the escalating tensions with Iran as justification. WSJ's sources said the $8 billion figure encapsulates a package of 22 separate deals.

Predictably, Democratic lawmakers who have opposed selling more arms to Saudi Arabia groused about the administration's latest Congressional end-run.

"If Iran’s provocations or the Syrian civil war is an emergency under the statute, then there’s a permanent emergency in the Middle East that will never allow Congress to oversee an arms sale," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.), a critic of Trump administration policy in the Middle East.

Rep. Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called the decision "another slap in Congress’s face."

"Congress wrote the law so that weapon sales would reflect broad consensus on foreign policy, consistent with our values, and the notion that there’s an emergency that justified upending our checks and balances is false, plain and simple," he said.

For the past two years, Saudi Arabia has led the world in arms purchases - and the US has been its top supplier.

Support has been growing in Congress - among both Democrats and Republicans - to oppose more arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the kingdom's involvement in the proxy war in Yemen. But given its longstanding rivalry with Iran, Saudi Arabia remains an important ally in that fight.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/trump-bypasses-congress-approve-8-billion-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-uae

the comments on that are just pure comedy….

Notable: Meadows Tweet: Brennan hand delivered dossier snippets?

https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1131998329888489472

Notable: CNN Tweet that will not age well.

This is CNN

https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1131963866647343104

Notable: Anon: migrant biological warfare?

Anons,

Spoopy things with reported cases of flu in "migrants" and in swine (China). I am now convinced that "flu" (and reports of it)can be used for all sorts of manipulative purposes. Here's the latest from San Diego https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/may/23/flu-outbreak-hits-san-diego-migrant-shelter/

Are migrants carrying any diseases that could harm the US population? Is this DELIBERATELY allowed for some reason? What about reports of migrant children dying in custody? The reports I've seen usually involve children who died AFTER getting some sort of "care"? If the Border Patrol is really treating people so badly, why do so many keep coming?

Notable: Ted Cruz warns Space Force is needed to battle space pirates.

Ted Cruz warns Space Force is needed to battle space pirates

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued a dire warning about space pirates Wednesday in support of appropriations to fund Space Force, President Trump’s proposed off-planet expansion of the U.S. military.

“Since the ancient Greeks first put to sea, nations have recognized the necessity of naval forces and maintaining a superior capability to protect waterborne travel and commerce from bad actors,” said Cruz, the chairman of the subcommittee on aviation and space, adding, “Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space. In this same way, I believe we too must now recognize the necessity of a Space Force to defend the nation and to protect space commerce and civil space exploration.”

https://news.yahoo.com/ted-cruz-warns-of-the-threat-of-space-pirates-in-senate-budget-hearing-180216131.html

Notable: Turkey in Syria.

Turkish Army Pullout Will Bring Peace to Northern Syria?

In mid-January 2018, the Turkish General Staff announced the beginning of Olive Branch Operation. The goal was to oust the Kurds from the outskirts of Afrin, as well as to create a buffer zone along the Syrian-Turkish border.

These steps were sharply criticized by the world community, but Ankara hastened to declare that the presence of its troops in Syria was temporary.

Erdogan promised to return these territories to Syrians. Indeed, the fighting stopped on March 20 2018, after capturing Afrin when several hundred Kurds were killed and wounded. However, now it looks like Turkey is not going to leave the occupied territory.

Kurdistan 24 TV channel recently published information that the Ankara government is building a concrete wall around the city of Afrin to isolate it from its surroundings.

“Sources on the ground in Afrin see this as another step of Turkey’s annexation of Afrin into its borders,” said Mutlu Çiviroğlu, a Syria and Kurdish affairs analyst.

Though several locals support Turkish activity, it doesn’t bring peace and stability to the region. Just remember the events of the last year.

First of all, let’s notice the terrorist attacks in Afrin that have been carried out against the Turkish Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) units. Among biggest attacks, the car bomb explosion in front of Ahrar al-Sharqiya headquarters is often mentioned. An investigation was initiated, but the responsible parties were never found. That demonstrates the support of the residence to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/turkish-army-pullout-bring-peace-northern-syria/5678263

Notable: Wyden decries WL treatment.

Lone US senator decries use of Espionage Act against Assange as establishment keeps mum

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has become a rare voice among the US politicians to denounce the new US indictment of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange as an encroachment on First Amendment rights.

In a statement on Thursday, hours after Assange was hit with 17 additional charges under the Espionage Act that carry a maximum total sentence of 170 years, Wyden warned that using the draconian legislation to effectively punish Assange for journalistic work might have dangerous implications on the freedom of press in the US.

"This is not about Julian Assange. This is about the use of the Espionage Act to charge a recipient and publisher of classified information. I am extremely concerned about the precedent this may set and potential dangers to the work of journalists and the First Amendment," Wyden said.

Wyden is known as a long-time advocate of privacy and civil liberties in the US legislature. He championed legislation forcing the US government to obtain a warrant before spying on Americans outside the US in 2008 and pushed for a congressional investigation into allegations of abuse and torture of prisoners by the CIA during the Bush administration.

Wyden's take on Assange's work is in stark contrast with that of the Department of Justice, which maintains that Assange "is no journalist." Numerous members of the journalistic community have vented their outrage at the indictment, describing it as an "unprecedented assault" on the First Amendment.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has echoed the sentiment, denouncing the charges against the Australian as a "threat to all journalists everywhere."

https://www.rt.com/usa/460127-assange-senator-first-amendment/

Notable: >>6579930 Detroit Salt Co. leader among 2 still missing after plane crash.

tunnels under Detroit

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/05/17/recovery-mission-2-men-aboard-missing-plane-over-lake-michigan/3707711002/

Detroit Salt Co. leader among 2 feared lost in plane disappearance

Notable: Planefag: Saudi med services out of SD.

Saudi Armed Forces Medical Services G5 MEDVC5A

departed San DieGo Eastbound @45k

Notable: Sara Carter: Pay attention to the unmaskings.

Sara Carter: Pay Attention To The Unmaskings

As President Trump ordered the intelligence community and others to fully cooperate with DOJ Attorney General William Barr in his investigation into the FBI’s probe of the 2016 presidential election, a key piece of evidence may reside in the early unmasking of Americans private communications, according to Sara Carter.

Carter pointed this out in her appearance Thursday night on Hannity, with guest host Dan Bongino.

Carter noted former UN Ambassador Samantha Power who unmasked nearly 300 people. These names will surprise Americans if they were to be made public, according to Carter.

Earlier, Carter reported on this news site that Trump’s order requires full cooperation from the intelligence community. “The review will be expansive,” Carter wrote.

Additionally, Carter said exculpatory evidence related to Trump campaign advisors Carter Page and George Papadopoulos will come to the surface.

https://saraacarter.com/sara-carter-pay-attention-to-the-unmaskings/

Notable: PapaD Tweet.

No conspiracy Marshall. It’s all coming out. Downer will go down in history as the bumbling spy I outed who almost upended the US-Australia relationship…until his own government throws him under the bus. Next time don’t use your phone to spy on me, dummy.

Papa D

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1131992392939200512

Notable: >>6579560, >>6579638 WH Tweet: POTUS & FLOTUS wheels up. Planefag upate.

President @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS are wheels up for Japan!

twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1131991304165044225

Notable: Rush transcript of POTUS's remarks on way to AF1 today

Rush transcript of POTUS's remarks on way to AF1 today

"I’m very transparent, so as you know I declassified everything, everything they want, I put it under the auspices of the attorney general. He’s going to be in charge of it. He’s a great gentleman and a highly respected man, so everything that they need is declassified and they’ll able to see how the hoax or witch hunt started and why it started. It was an attempted coup, an attempted takedown of the president of the United States it should never ever happen to anybody else so it’s very important. People have been asking me to declassify for a long period of time, I decided to do it, and they’ll learn a lot. I hope it’s going to be nice perhaps it won’t be."

moar at link

https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-in-town-pool-report-4-rush-transcript-1835011485

Notable: Judge Raises Serious Questions About Democrats’ Border Wall Lawsuit

Judge Raises Serious Questions About Democrats’ Border Wall Lawsuit

A federal judge expressed deep skepticism over a lawsuit by House Democrats that seeks to cut funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden questioned, during a three-hour court hearing Thursday, the legitimacy of a lawsuit that challenges the White House’s funding of border wall construction without explicit permission from Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported.

McFadden said the question of whether the House has legal standing in this case “is a significant issue.” Has the House “used all the tools at its disposal before rushing to court?” he said.

“There are other tools in your arsenal here, right?” McFadden asked.

The federal judge, a Trump appointee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the judiciary should exercise prudence about wading into a fight between the two other branches of government.

McFadden’s comments are the latest developments in a court case that began in April when the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted to sue over Trump’s emergency declaration. That declaration, made in February, allowed him to tap billions more in border wall funding after Congress gave him far less money than he wanted.

Democrats have fiercely opposed funding for a border wall. The impasse even led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Both the House and Senate passed a resolution condemning Trump’s emergency declaration, but it failed after he vetoed it — the first veto of his presidency.

“The president’s sham emergency declaration and unlawful transfers of funds have undermined our democracy, contravening the vote of the bipartisan Congress, the will of the American people and the letter of the Constitution,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in April when the House voted in favor of the lawsuit.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/judge-skeptical-border-wall-lawsuit/

Notable: DJT twat w/CAP: I am on Air Force one with the First Lady heading to Japan and looking forward to honoring, on behalf of the United States

New POTUS Tweet

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131987382184472576

Notable: DJT twat w/CAP: Just spoke to Prime Minister @NarendraModi where I congratulated him on his big political victory…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131983310668746752

Just spoke to Prime Minister @NarendraModi where I congratulated him on his big political victory. He is a great man and leader for the people of India - they are lucky to have him!

Notable: BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - A suspect was shot and killed by law enforcement officers Friday outside a mosque near Fort Lauderdale.

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - A suspect was shot and killed by law enforcement officers Friday outside a mosque near Fort Lauderdale.

The fatal shooting occurred in the parking lot of the Masjid Al-Iman mosque on Franklin Drive in the Franklin Park neighborhood.

MORE CRIME HEADLINES

Deputies shoot armed domestic violence suspect in Tamarac

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Deputy fatally shoots knife-wielding man who killed ex-girlfriend, BSO says

Gadyaces Serralta, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Florida, said members of the Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force encountered the suspect, who was wanted for attempted murder, in the parking lot. He said the suspect got out of his vehicle, holding a gun, leading members of the task force to open fire, killing him.

A view from Sky 10 showed the uncovered body laying on the ground next to the vehicle. There appeared to be a gun near the body.

"We do not believe that the mosque was involved in any way," Serralta said.

No other details were immediately released.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.

https://www.local10.com/news/florida/broward/mosque-shooting

Coward county again struck by florida man

Notable: French Ex-Head Hollande May Have Been Targeted in Assassination Attempt –Reports

French Ex-Head Hollande May Have Been Targeted in Assassination Attempt –Reports

20:15 24.05.2019

Late last month, French law enforcement took four suspects into custody over preparing an assault on police officers, with another being detained several weeks later in Strasbourg.

A member of the group detained in early May in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act appeared to have possibly been planning an assassination attempt against former French President Francois Hollande, television channel BFMTV reported.

“Was Francois Hollande targeted by terrorists? Some evidence underpinning the assumption has been found in the mobile phone of one of the five men detained in the beginning of May over the preparation for a terrorist act against police and the Elysee Palace”, the media outlet pointed out, adding that the person in question is an underage man from Chechnya, referred to as Khamid S.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905241075313516-french-ex-president-hollande-assassination-attempt/

Notable: Science deals a setback to Obamacare's transgender rule

Science deals a setback to Obamacare's transgender rule

As hard as the social justice movement tries to erase the meaning of words as we all know them, we're not quite there yet and the Trump administration's reversal of an Obama-era rule on healthcare demonstrated that on Friday. A new rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services undoes a previous one by the Obama administration, which essentially said that the terms "sex" and "gender" are interchangeable, even as liberals have pressed to make a distinction between the two for years.

When Obamacare was passed, it prohibited the discrimination of medical care "on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability." The Obama administration then said that discrimination on "sex" included "gender," and therefore any man or woman claiming to identify as the opposite gender was entitled to the same protection. Facilities that performed sex-based procedures, then, could not deny those same services to a transgender person, who, for example, might elect to have her uterus removed as part of transitioning to "male."

Now the Department of Health and Human Services has decided that, no, anti-discrimination law does not require this. There will, of course, be legal action to stop the Trump administration's reversal, but science is not on the social justice crowd's side and medicine is a science-based field. Sex is by every measure determined by a person's biological physical makeup. Reproductive organs determine an individual's sex, not his or her beliefs, feelings, or dysphoria.

In an ideal, free country, anyone can determine how they want to live, how they want to dress, and what gender pronouns they prefer for themselves. What do you know? We already live in that country! But it's entirely something else to demand that science-based professions disregard the exact meaning of words (like "male" and "female") in order to conduct human experiments deemed unnecessary, perhaps unsafe, and nonetheless, a little shudder-inducing. That's what the new rule reversal aims to prevent. When the legal system kicks in, we'll find out if words still have meaning.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/science-deals-a-setback-to-obamacares-transgender-rule

Notable: >>6578947 Nadler says it was warm in the room and was dehydrated.

https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1131968231940534272

ok it was warm

Notable: >>6578960 James Comey twat: Investigate whatever you wish about 2016 but don’t forget the people of the FBI must investigate…

>>6578855

>>6578926

Notable: Lyon attack: ‘parcel bomb’ explosion in France injures at least eight

Lyon attack: ‘parcel bomb’ explosion in France injures at least eight

At least eight people have been injured in an explosion believed to be a "parcel bomb."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lyon-attack-parcel-bomb-explosion-in-france-injures-at-least-eight

Notable: AF1 wheels up and off to Tokyo

AF1 is up .

Notable: >>6578566, >>6578609 Fat Nadler gets medical help @ press conf

Eyes on Nadler

Rep. Nadler Gets Medical Help

"Rep. Nadler not feeling well during a press conference at P.S. 199 in Manhattan."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ8e3BFrIfs

Notable: MAGA hats blurred in high school yearbook

Outrage after MAGA hats blurred in high school yearbook

https://www.kxan.com/national/outrage-after-pro-trump-hats-blurred-in-yearbook/2024416468

Notable: >>6578685, >>6578655 exlposion early reports (France)

Six people have been injured, two of them seriously after an explosion in the Rue Victor Hugo area of #Lyon, France.

12:20 PM - 24 May 2019

https://twitter.com/BreakingNAgency/status/1131958196082544641

Notable: Shanahan to meet Chinese counterpart in Singapore

Shanahan to meet Chinese counterpart in Singapore: U.S. official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will meet China's defense minister on the sidelines of an Asia defense forum in Singapore, a senior U.S. defense official said on Friday, at a time of strained tensions between Beijing and Washington over trade and security.

"We're doing a pull aside with the Chinese counterpart at Shangri-La," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe will deliver a speech on June 2 at the Shangri-La Dialogue, the first time since 2011 that a Chinese defense minister will be at the forum, having in recent years sent lower level officials.

http://www.foreigndesknews.com/world/us/shanahan-to-meet-chinese/

Notable: China largest Chipmaker De-Lists NYSE

China's Largest Chipmaker De-Lists From NYSE

Friday's session has already featured a frantic flurry of trade-war-related headlines that have - at least in the market's view - overshadowed Theresa May's tearful announcement that she will be stepping down as PM.

Beijing repudiated President Trump's Thursday claim about a 'speedy' trade deal, saying there were no plans for a Trump-Xi meeting. US stock futures pared gains on that headline. Also, US firms ratcheted up the pressure on Huawei, with Microsoft joining the contingent of chip and tech companies that is planning to cut ties with Huawei over Washington's blacklisting.

And now, the South China Morning Post is reporting that China's largest chipmaker is withdrawing its ADRs from the New York Stock Exchange, and will subsequently trade only in Hong Kong. The company said 'low trading volumes' and the 'cost of maintaining the listing' motivated its decision.

China’s biggest maker of semiconductors is to withdraw from the New York Stock Exchange as the increasingly ferocious trade war with the US spills over into the technology sector.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) said on Friday evening it has notified NYSE of its intention to apply on June 3 to delist its so-called American depositary receipts from the bourse. In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, where its shares are listed, SMIC cited low trading volumes of its ADRs and the costs of maintaining the listing and complying with reporting requirements and related laws.

The delisting is expected to happen after June 13, and trading of the chip maker’s US securities will shift to the over-the-counter market, the statement said.

Bwahahahahaha-joining the ranks of ktwats OTC POS narrative-can't make this shit up.

The sudden move comes as Washington steps up efforts to cut off its technology from China, with trade negotiations between the world’s two largest economies still deadlocked.

Just a few days ago, Steve Bannon told the SCMP that he would like to see Chinese companies shut out from American capital markets. It appears Beijing is doing him one better.

Meanwhile, a growing number of sell-side strategists now see a protracted trade war as the 'base-case' scenario. The latest assessment from Rabobank concluded that it's extremely unlikely that either side will offer an olive branch in the near future: "That ship has sailed."

China is battening down the hatches for a "Long March" and doesn’t even want to talk to the US. In fact, Xi and Trump might not even meet at the end of June in Osaka, in which case there is no obvious off-ramp.

Hovering in the background is Steve Bannon's 'superhawkishness'. President Trump has already accomplished something incredible: He's united a disparate group of business leaders and politicians from both parties behind his hard-line approach. This might give him the cover he needs to ignore the market, at least until things start getting really bad.

In the mean time, expect more Chinese companies will demonstrate their 'independence' from American markets.

go right ahead-kiss of death listing on that exchange.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/chinas-largest-chipmaker-de-lists-nyse

Notable: >>6578443 Madonna X pics

Scary decode of Madonna Eurovision performance (pics related)

She called herself Madame X

I fear this is Related to Disease X

https://archive.fo/Qbl6g

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-18/bill-gates-threat-devastating-global-pandemic-very-real

https://archive.fo/6JstJ

https://amp.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-warns-the-next-pandemic-disease-is-coming-2018-4

In pic 1, she tells us that disease X does not spread through air

In pic 2, this is confirmed, as has mask-wearing girl is called naive

In pics 3–7, we see that most people will be exterminated

In pic 8, a new world is born from previous world's ashes

Moar speculation: Is it in the vaccines that Bill Gay is pushing?

Is that why he can predict it? (Because he will cause it?)

spoiler alert

This is the storyline of the British mini series "Utopia"

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2384811/

Notable: U.K., Italian and Aus Gov stand strongly against Mifsud (BNL)

BREAKING: U.K., Italian and Australian Government stand strongly against Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer & Stefan Halper’s actions against former Trump official Papadopoulos and are now actively cooperating with the Trump administration to investigate the FBI.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1131953183641751552

Notable: Planefag: DOJ returning from Paris France

DOJ returning from Paris France .

Notable: Alabama abortion law challenged in PP lawsuit

Here we go! Straight to the SC.

=NEWS=

Alabama abortion law challenged in Planned Parenthood lawsuit

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alabama-abortion-law-challenged-in-planned-parenthood-lawsuit

Notable: >>6578508 some anon FlyMAYFly proofs

Kek what a great morning

Notable: SpreadsheetAnon update

Spreadsheet is updated to post >>6574269

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Efm2AcuMJ7whuuB6T7ouOIwrE_9S-1vDJLAXIVPZU2g/edit?usp=sharing

Full sized images Q posts/responds to updated:

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(nested) Screenshots (in EST) updated

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All images in these galleries are permanent, do not expire, you need no account, no nothing to access them, and you can post

them anywhere, share them with link easily (or download)

ZIPPED FILES OF ALL Q'S POSTS, BY MONTH:

2018

FEB: https://anonfile.com/C8A8bah7be/Feb_18_rar

MAR: https://anonfile.com/x0Bcb4hbbb/Mar_18_rar

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2019

JAN: https://anonfile.com/E70dAat5bc/01-19_JAN_rar

FEB: https://anonfile.com/ufqe74v6ba/02-19_FEB_rar

Mar: https://anonfile.com/sbg732b3n4/03-19_MAR_rar

APR: https://anonfile.com/sdk0o9m3ne/04-19_APR_rar

MAY: will be created at the end of the month, will update board with link

→ RIGHT-CLICK, CHOOSE "SAVE AS" to download zip file

All articles Q posts/responds to are also being ARCHIVED due to high risk of editing/deletion to scrub evidence.

Patriots, archive offline!

-SPREADSHEETANON

Notable: >>6578231 Official filing of USA vs. Assange

Official filing of USA vs. Assange in the Eastern District of Virginia:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1165566/download

Notable: >>6578274 Biden Reportedly Involved in Early Stages of 2016 Russia Probe

REPORT: Joe Biden Reportedly in Early Stages of 2016 Russia Probe

https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1131942768903950337?s=21

Notable: FBF - Q drop 2596 - the 3 [Ms]

Q Proof or just my imagination

WATCH: British Prime Minister Theresa May Gives Teary-Eyed Resignation Speech

Notable: NXIVM member was 10 yr member of "Ramtha's"

Wow, this article is packed full of more interesting connections, and I'm not sure if this has been posted because this was the first I've heard of it:

The NXIVM/JZ KNIGHT Connection

Earlier Thursday, former NXIVM senior member Mark Vicente completed his five days of testimony by reluctantly admitting he once belonged to another spiritual organization — and believed its leader had been channeling the spirit of an ancient warrior.

Vicente admitted under cross-examination he had belonged to the Ramtha School of Enlightenment between 1994 and 2004. "It was a body of knowledge," Vicente said.

When Raniere's attorney, Marc Agnifilo, began to probe the subject of Ramtha, Vicente said he was not sure how much he could say — an apparent reference to litigation between himself and the group, which is based in the state of Washington.

"Did you believe that (Ramtha founder) J.Z. Knight was channeling a 35,000-year-old warrior?" Agnifilo asked Vicente.

"For a few years," Vicente responded.

Asked if there was any evidence to back that theory up, Vicente replied that "there was evidence" in the form of scientific testing.

He said Ramtha's leader turned on him when he made a documentary, "What the Bleep Do We Know!?," that dealt with group.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/NXIVM-13851004.php

Notable: Turnover at the Top of the Trump Admin (ref graphic)

The Turnover at the Top of the Trump Administration

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/16/us/politics/all-the-major-firings-and-resignations-in-trump-administration.html

Notable: >>6578041, >>6578071, >>6578414 New filing Trump et al v. Deutsche/Cap1: 'Interlocutory'

>>6577976

>>6577961

TY Bakers!!!

https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1131936775943938049

Big Cases Bot

‏ @big_cases

New filing in Trump et al v. Deutsche Bank and Capital One: Notice of Interlocutory Appeal

Notable: NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan

NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A top NASA executive hired in April to guide strategy for returning astronauts to the moon by 2024 has resigned, the space agency said on Thursday, the culmination of internal strife and dwindling congressional support for the lunar initiative. Mark Sirangelo, named six weeks ago as special assistant to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left the agency as NASA abandoned a reorganization plan due to a chilly reception on Capitol Hill, Bridenstine said in a statement. Two individuals close to the space program and familiar with the situation said Sirangelo was escorted out of NASA’s headquarters in Washington on Wednesday after his resignation.

His departure came after lawmakers rejected NASA’s proposal to create a separate directorate within the space agency to oversee future lunar missions and ultimately develop human exploration of Mars. “The proposal was not accepted at this time, so we will move forward under our current organizational structure,” Bridenstine said. “Given NASA is no longer pursuing the new mission directorate, Mark has opted to pursue other opportunities.”

Last week, the Trump administration asked Congress to increase NASA’s spending next year by $1.6 billion as a “down payment” on the accelerated goal of landing Americans back on the moon by 2024, more than half a century after the end of the U.S. Apollo lunar program. The latest initiative was dubbed Artemis, after the goddess of the hunt and the moon in Greek mythology and the twin sister of Apollo. NASA had aimed to return crewed spacecraft to the lunar surface by 2028, after putting a “Gateway” station into lunar orbit by 2024. However, the prospect of additional funding drew little enthusiasm from congressional appropriators.

The two people with knowledge of the matter said Sirangelo’s ouster was sealed by increasing skepticism that 2024 was a realistic deadline for moon landings. In his statement, Bridenstine said the agency was still exploring what organizational changes were “necessary to maximize efficiencies and achieve the end state of landing the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024.” “If the $1.6 billion does not materialize, we will fall back on the previous plan, which was to land in 2028,” the NASA chief told reporters at a news conference earlier in the day. NASA announced earlier on Thursday it had selected the space technology company Maxar Technologies Inc as the first contractor to help build the “Gateway” outpost.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-nasa/nasa-executive-quits-weeks-after-being-named-to-lead-moon-initiative-idUSKCN1SU0A5

Notable: Harvey Weinstein Accusers Reach $44 Million Settlement In Sexual Misconduct Case

Harvey Weinstein Accusers Reach $44 Million Settlement In Sexual Misconduct Case

Disgraced Hollywood filmmaker Harvey Weinstein’s accusers have reached a tentative $44 million settlement over sexual misconduct allegations, according to multiple reports.

Roughly $30 million will be allocated for plaintiffs, which includes former Weinstein Co. employees. The other $14 million will go toward legal fees for Weinstein’s associates, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy last year

Weinstein attorney Adam Harris told a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware Thursday that Weinstein and his former studio had reached an agreement “in principle,” although the deal has yet to be finalized.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/harvey-weinstein-44-million-sexual-misconduct/

Notable: Official WH Press Release on AG authority.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-58/

Notable: >>6577722 KEK!!! Pelosi's daughter rips 'despicable' fake videos: 'Madam Speaker doesn't even drink alcohol!'. Bar tab attached…

Pelosi's daughter rips 'despicable' fake videos: 'Madam Speaker doesn't even drink alcohol!'

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445386-pelosis-daughter-responds-to-fake-videos-madam-speaker-doesnt-even-drink

Notable: Wikipedia case against NSA internet snooping returns to court

Wikipedia case against NSA internet snooping returns to court

Attorneys for Wikipedia are scheduled to return to federal court next week in a long-running fight to limit government surveillance of internet messages. The case has seen some successes, including an appeals court win on standing in 2017, and civil libertarians see the case as a way to stop the National Security Agency from siphoning data from the internet’s backbone to store for warrantless searches. The Trump administration argues the case cannot be decided without harming government secrets, however. A similar case, filed in 2008 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was dismissed last month by a judge in California who found a “fair and full adjudication” would require “potentially harmful disclosures of national security information.”

Filed in 2015, the Wikimedia Foundation case predates the term “FISA abuse” as applied to a warrant against Trump campaign associate Carter Page and instead focuses on a program operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that could impact anyone. The Wikimedia Foundation, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, relies on math to argue the NSA is intercepting its messages as part of Upstream collection, a program that takes records from major internet cables and switches. Although set up to target terrorists and spies, records "incidentally" collected on U.S. citizens can be searched without a warrant. “Wikimedia, with trillions of communications, is a different kind of plaintiff,” a filing this month argued. “The immense volume and global distribution of Wikimedia’s communications ensures that its communications travel on every possible Internet path into and out of the country.”

The most recent filing urges U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis to privately review classified evidence after May 30 oral arguments, before ruling on a Trump administration motion to dismiss. The online giant said additional secrets don't need to be disclosed for it to prevail in the case. Ellis, who works from a courtroom in Alexandria, Va., became nationally known this year presiding over former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s trial. He questioned the rationale for prosecuting Manafort and demanded to see a secret document setting the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Ultimately, Ellis sharply deviated from sentencing guidelines, giving Manafort fewer than 4 years in prison, rather than 19-24 years.

ACLU attorney Patrick Toomey, who is representing Wikimedia, gave an upbeat assessment, saying he believes the law requires Ellis to review evidence before ruling. “Congress has authorized courts to use special safeguards in surveillance cases like this one, rather than dismissing those cases outright. A ruling for Wikimedia would allow this challenge to move forward based on the extensive public record, and it would ensure that our courts have the chance to determine whether the NSA’s spying is lawful,” Toomey said. Attorney Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a recent interview that the stakes are high. "Millions of ordinary Americans are being swept up in this dragnet. The notion is we sweep up everything, and then, we look for what we need. It’s turning the Fourth Amendment on its head," Opsahl said.

The section of law that the NSA says allows for the internet collection, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was renewed last year by President Trump without significant changes, following failed attempts in Congress to prevent alleged “backdoor searches” of records on U.S. citizens. The Wikimedia case is one of the final legal challenges filed specifically in response to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosures. Most other cases have been ruled moot after Congress ended a dragnet phone-record program.

Ellis initially ruled against Wikimedia before being reversed on standing, or the legal right to sue, by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. The judge is likely to turn heads during oral arguments, as he did in the Manafort case. During a 2015 hearing, he questioned the adequacy of the secret court handling FISA warrants and gave colorful commands to attorneys on both sides. “When I start [talking] you need to stop,” Ellis told a prominent Justice Department attorney in 2015, adding to Toomey: “This isn’t politics, you’re not on the stump!”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/wikipedia-case-against-nsa-internet-snooping-returns-to-court

Notable: The CEO of a company being sued over its massive American flag is refusing to back down. @Fox&FriendsFirst

https://twitter.com/FoxFriendsFirst/status/1131916006065135618

Notable: Needs sauce to go w/CAPs: U.S. Navy Tweets Picture Of Flag With #245. Q post #245 Is POTUS Declassification Order.

U.S. Navy Tweets Picture Of Flag With #245

Q post #245 Is POTUS Declassification Order.

Notable: Doug Collins on Mueller: Why would the special counsel think the HJC has devolved into a stage for political spectacle?

Rep. Doug Collins

https://twitter.com/RepDougCollins/status/1131887848737648640

Chaiman Nadler says Mueller is reluctant to testify because “he doesn't want to participate in anything that he might regard as a political spectacle.” Why would the special counsel think the House Judiciary Committee has devolved into a stage for political spectacle?

Notable: Mogadishu: BREAKING: US military claims to have killed 2 #AlShabaab fighters in a drone strike

https://twitter.com/Mogadishu_News/status/1131906607842045952

Notable: >>6577336 OP-ED: Krassensteins Respond to Twitter Suspension

Krassenstein bros respond

https://hillreporter.com/op-ed-krassensteins-respond-to-twitter-suspension-by-the-krassenstein-brothers-37041

OP-ED: Krassensteins Respond to Twitter Suspension – by the Krassenstein Brothers

BY ED KRASSENSTEIN & BRIAN KRASSENSTEIN May 24, 2019

The first thing that went through our heads was that ‘this is some sort of mistake,’ so we contacted our main press contact at Twitter to inquire. All that the friendly woman was able to provide us with was their official press statement that had already been sent to other press outlets such as The Daily Beast and Fox News. It read as follows:

“The Twitter Rules to apply to everyone. Operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions are strictly prohibited. Engaging in these behaviors will result in permanent suspension from the service.”

The problem with these statements is that we never did any of this. We never “purchased account interactions,” nor did we ever “sell usernames” or buy usernames. We did operate multiple accounts, but there were only a few of them and they were not used to “mislead” or “manipulate Twitter.” If Twitter investigated this thoroughly they would clearly see this.

This is what we DID do:

1. We, or immediate family members and/or business partners operated multiple Twitter accounts in a 100% non-manipulative or misleading way. These, however, ONLY included @EdKrassen, which is Ed Krassenstein’s personal account; @Krassenstein, which is Brian Krassenstein’s personal account; @KrassenCast, which is the official KrassenCasts podcast account; and two additional accounts: @kstein2020 & @FrankKern20, both of which were used specifically to track threatening tweets by others, targeted at us and/or our families (more on this below).

2. In addition to this, we have run other Twitter accounts in the past for various businesses and projects, which we have not logged into for years. None of them were misleading or manipulative in any way. There was one Twitter account used named “Impeach Donald Trump” but we had deactivated it well prior to the suspension, and it was never used to deceive, mislead, or manipulate.

3. We NEVER, and we want to make this as clear as day, ever bought or sold ANY Twitter accounts or interactions. We swear on our graves that this is 100% true.

The two Twitter accounts mentioned above (@kstein2020 @FrankKern20) were old accounts. One was 12 years old and was an account we had used to tweet about an old Android video game system called the OUYA when we ran a news site about the system. The other account was 2 years old and one of us used it on our phones to track threats that people who had blocked our personal and business accounts were making toward us and our families. The FBI is aware of these threats.

Notable: >>6577775 More woes for Huawei

No more Microsoft shit for Huawei!!

Microsoft Cuts Ties With Huawei

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/microsoft-cuts-ties-huawei

No more Google shit for Huawei!

Losing Access To Android Would "Turn Huawei Phones Into Paperweights", Analyst Warns…

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-21/losing-access-android-would-turn-huawei-phones-paperweights-analyst-warns

The gook are now threatening US ally over Huawei….

Chinese Diplomat Warns UK: Ditch Huawei At Your Own Peril

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-23/chinese-diplomat-warns-uk-ditch-huawei-your-own-peril

I wonder why??

Britain's Largest Cell Phone Networks Drop Huawei Phones From 5G Launch

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-22/britains-largest-cell-phone-networks-drop-huawei-phones-5g-launch

Oops the Jap are now cutting tie with Huawei…..

Toshiba Joins Huawei Blockade, Suspends Hard-Drive Shipments

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-23/toshiba-joins-huawei-blockade-suspends-hard-drive-shipments

Japan, UK Join US Blockade Of China: ARM Tells Staff To Stop Working With Huawei

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-22/japan-uk-join-us-blockade-china-arm-tells-staff-stop-working-huawei

Notable: >>6577234, Mueller wants to testify in private. Nadler "I don't know why" (video).

>>6577272

=NEWS=

Mueller wants to testify for Congress 'in private,' Jerry Nadler says

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mueller-wants-to-testify-for-congress-in-private-jerry-nadler-says

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP: I don’t know why the Radical Left Democrats want Bob Mueller to testify…

>>6577270

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131901353872244736

I don’t know why the Radical Left Democrats want Bob Mueller to testify when he just issued a 40 Million Dollar Report that states, loud & clear & for all to hear, No Collusion and No Obstruction (how do you Obstruct a NO crime?) Dems are just looking for trouble and a Do-Over!

Notable: Judge who upheld Trump subpoena donated to Dems on committee seeking the records

Posted late LB.

=NEWS=

Judge who upheld Trump subpoena donated to Dems on committee seeking the records

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-who-ruled-against-trump-on-house-subpoenas-donated-to-dems-on-panel-that-requested-the-records

Notable: DJT retwat w/CAP: “If they try to Impeach President Trump, who has done nothing wrong (No Collusion)… @LindseyGrahamSC

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131897618265776128

Notable: Memorandum on Agency Cooperation with Attorney General's Review of Intelligence Activities Relating to the 2016 Presidential Campaigns

Subject: Memorandum on Agency Cooperation with Attorney General's Review of Intelligence Activities Relating to the 2016 Presidential Campaigns

Last night there were articles discussing memorandum on DECLAS but could not find link.

Not seeing it in notables.

Here's the sauce: https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-memorandum-on-agency-cooperation-with-attorney-1834993466

Notable: >>6576877, >>6576939 Dems in full panic mode

>>6576800

Damage control..

Now he has finally met his match.

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, has spent the past 48 hours doing to Trump what he has done to so many others. She lifted up his skin, got under it, and began scratching furiously.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/23/pelosi-v-trump-how-a-stable-genius-president-met-his-match

Notable: JA hit with 17 new charges under Espionage Act

In this story, they have alot of the charging documents.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is hit with 17 new charges in America under the Espionage Act for conspiring with Chelsea Manning to disclose national defense information - and now faces 170 YEARS in prison

Assange was hit with 18 counts on Thursday by a grand jury in Virginia

Seventeen are new and are violations of the Espionage Act which is ordinarily reserved for government officials

They indictment alleges he and Manning conspired to disseminate classified information in 2009 and 2010

They used her access to defense department computers to harvest the information and publish it

He has always argued he was right to publish it on WikiLeaks as a 'journalist'

It's the first time in history that anyone operating in a journalistic capacity has been charged under the Espionage Act

WikiLeaks on Twitter called Assange's prosecution 'the end of national security journalism and the First Amendment'

US authorities now have until June 11 to submit their extradition case to the UK

Assange is in London, completing a 50 week jail term, for violating the conditions of his bail from a 2012 sex assault arrest in Sweden

He was arrested in April after being thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy

He spent seven years hiding there from both US and Swedish authorities

Julian Assange has been charged in the US with 17 violations of the Espionage Act for conspiring with Chelsea Manning.

A federal grand jury returned the indictment against him in Virginia on Thursday afternoon. Now, the 47-year-old WikiLeaks founder faces 170 years behind bars.

Seventeen of the 18 charges are violations of the Espionage Act.

They are; one count of conspiracy to receive national defense information, eight counts of obtaining national defense information, eight counts of disclosure of national defense information.

The 18th charge is conspiracy to commit computer intrusion which he was hit with in April.

It's the first time in history that anyone operating in a journalistic capacity has been charged under the Espionage Act and raises concerns about First Amendment limits and protections for publishing classified information.

WikiLeaks on Twitter called Assange's prosecution 'the end of national security journalism and the First Amendment'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7064533/Julian-Assange-hit-18-new-charges-conspiring-Chelsea-Manning.html

Notable: EU election day chaos as British expats can't vote due to forms arriving late

>>6576817

not unrelated

Notable: Six children taken to hospital after 'serious incident' at home in UK

>>6576805

>Just minutes after news of resignation of May

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7066409/Six-children-taken-hospital-police-cordon-primary-school.html

Notable: NXIVM Sex Cult Story Keeps Getting Moar Disturbing

>>6576778

>>6576778

>16k sealed indictments in Cali alone out of 35k

Notable: Wakey Wakey, UK votes to change politics for good

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/24/wakey-wakey-u-k-votes-to-change-politics-for-good/#more-164129

Notable: Huawei Chairman Says U.S. Is Attacking It, Because NSA Can’t Use Firm’s Equipment for Spying

Huawei Chairman Says U.S. Is Attacking It, Because NSA Can’t Use Firm’s Equipment for Spying

https://larouchepub.com/pr/2019/190522_huawei_chairman.html

Notable: >>6576631, >>6576632, >>6576658 BREAKING: Theresa May says she will quit as Tory leader on June 7th

>>6576610

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/may/24/theresa-may-resignation-uk-prime-minister-politics-brexit-live-news

Notable: Anon summary of why Barr gets to declassify intel

AG Barr must talk to agencies/depts before he declassifies the intel. He cannot delegate that to someone else. Why-he must have authority to declassify information. He is head attorney so they can all be asked questions by him, he’s their boss.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-william-barr-given-power-to-declassify-documents-on-surveillance-activities-into-trump-campaign

Notable: >>6576545, >>6576556, >>6576582 Krassenstein bros get PERMANENLY banned from Twitter for" fake accts & purchasing acct interactions" (or is it harassment?)

Professional shills, and general shitheads, the Krassenstein brothers, banhammered off twatter for good. Winning never gets old.

Sauce:

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1131739465314054144

Notable: >>6575939 DJT Twat WRWY

png of DJT'S "WRWY" tweet

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Notable: Satellite business war in the upper atmosphere?

https://www.space.com/amp/spacex-launches-60-starlink-internet-satellites.html

Satellite business war in the upper atmosphere?

Amazon wants to provide internet to the masses.. joy.

Notable: Global pedophile ring bust leads to the rescue of 50 children

Global paedophile ring bust leads to the rescue of 50 children amid fears of hundreds of abuse cases

A global police operation has rescued 50 children from an international paedophilia ring, following the arrest of multiple people – including one man based in Australia.

The International Criminal Police Organisation, Interpol, first started investigating the ring in 2017 after the discovery of online material showing the abuse of 11 boys, all under the age of 13.

Authorities allege the material surfaced on the darkweb through a subscription-based website with an audience of almost 63,000 people worldwide.

After surveillance involving authorities from Thailand, the USA, Bulgaria, New Zealand and Australia, the website’s main administrator, Montri Salangam, was arrested in November 2017 in Thailand.

Police allege material on the website showed Salangam abusing 11 boys – one of whom was his nephew – after he lured them to his home with food, internet access and football games.

Another man, Ruecha Tokputza, was also arrested in Adelaide before 251 pornographic videos and 415 videos were found on his phone, with some showing him as the main abuser.

Tokputza’s youngest victim was just 15 months old. It is believed he also removed one child's nappy and abused another while he slept.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/news-australia-global-pedophile-ring-50-children-rescued-interpol-adelaide-arrest-crime-world/a9d83fed-2e9d-40c4-a24d-7b7bbac76b1b

Notable: Owls = Parliament?

##FLYMAYFLY##

Q has had many drops regarding OWLS

What is a group of OWLS

a PARLIAMENT

Notable: DJT Twat WRWY

>>6575918

TY :)

In other news….Did anyone notice this twat from POTUS today?

WRWY

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1131607588683112449?s=21

Notable: US ARMY Twat - D-Day

U.S. Army Tweets:

D-Day

https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131773063224102912

Notable: >>6575896, >>6576059 Dig on DECLAS cirumvent DNI

anons, I'm doing a dig on this Q Post.

>>6574269 (several breads ago)

Starting here.

https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html#three

Notable: >>6575495 A second look at Q's movie posters

Couple interesting things to note about Q's pic in last drop:

- 5 movies posted. 2nd and 4th ranked marked 2018 and 2020, respectfully. 3rd (middle) rank falls between both- like a pivot > pivotal shift in 2019 (?) defense > offense (?)

- A movie post of The Interview–subject matter NK and KJU–appears tossed on the floor. Front and center in 2019 (?)

- Anon keeps looking at this woman's hands… speculation: focus on finger/digit count(s) or perhaps alignments on the clock.

Notable: FB Trying To Reduce Political Advertising Sales Ahead Of 2020 Elections

Facebook Is Trying To Reduce Political Advertising Sales Ahead Of 2020 Elections

As the 2020 election approaches, Facebook says that it has stopped paying employees commissions for the sale of political ads on the social media platform. Facebook now considers political advertisements on its platform a substantial liability in the context of the 2016 presidential election, according to former Facebook employees and digital campaign strategists, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The alleged Russian meddling in the U.S’s 2016 election has raised concerns about the role of political ads on the platform, leading to discussion among Facebook senior staff as to whether to nix political advertisements altogether, according to more former employees. A March 2018 Facebook Newsroom release acknowledges that an all-inclusive ban on political Facebook advertisements may be the only way to ensure that there is no foreign interference in elections.

Mark Zuckerberg decided that the company will continue selling political ads on Facebook, but incentives for selling them will no longer continue, a former employee source told the WSJ. Employees who previously earned commissions through the selling of political ad space will now have their base salaries raised instead, Katie Harbath, Facebook’s global elections public policy director, said. Harbath explains that the company now views political campaign ads as a civic responsibility rather than a profit-driving opportunity. Political advertisements make up a relatively small proportion of Facebook’s total revenue, constituting $55 billion of Facebook’s revenue in 2018, according to the WSJ. All users will have the same level of access and support concerning political ads, and the new compensation policy will affect ads from national to local campaign levels, attempting to avoid the accusation that Facebook is favoring particular political factions and not others, Harbath explains. “It doesn’t matter if you’re running for president or running for city council. You have access to the same tools and level of support,” Harbath said.

Some presidential campaigns have noticed a difference in services rendered by Facebook staffers amid the implementation of the new policy, while others still work with Facebook employees beyond the scope of what is available to normal customers, digital campaign staffers allege according to the WSJ.

In 2016, both Facebook and Google offered substantial advertising services to the Trump and Clinton campaigns that surpassed what was available to smaller campaigns. The Trump campaign especially capitalized on these services given its smaller and less experienced digital campaigning staff. Facebook’s shift in compensation policy has had noticeable benefits for smaller campaigns, making help more available than it has been recently for these small, low spending customers, according to Patrick O’Keefe, executive director of the Maryland Republican Party.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/23/facebook-political-advertising-2020-election/

Notable: Schiff Calls Barr Investigation Into Origins Of Russia Probe ‘Un-American’

Schiff Calls Barr Investigation Into Origins Of Russia Probe ‘Un-American’

California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff called Attorney General William Barr’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe “un-American” in a Thursday night tweet. “While Trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies,” Schiff wrote. “The coverup has entered a new and dangerous phase. This is un-American.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the heads of the CIA, FBI, State Department and other agencies to cooperate with Barr as he investigates the origins of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The president also released a memo authorizing the attorney general to “declassify, downgrade, or direct the declassification or downgrading of information or intelligence” regarding the investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign was surveilled unlawfully.

A Hill/Harris-X survey conducted last week showed 62% of registered voters agreed with Barr’s decision to investigate the probe’s origins. Meanwhile, several were quick to criticize Schiff out on Twitter.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/23/schiff-barr-investigation-russia-probe-un-american/

Notable: >>6574969 Svetlana Lokhova Suing Halper, Wall Street Journal, NYT, NBC, Washington Post

WOW -

Svetlana Lokhova Suing Halper, Wall Street Journal, NYT, NBC, Washington Post

May 23, 2019

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1131766357538856961

Notable: >>6575362 Possible whistleblower, anons DIGG!!

Q, glad you are back and active again

My dad will probably only live a few more months… talk to him yet?

He was blocked from promotion to Colonel because he found things and didn't 'go along'

He's about to take a major crypto secret to the grave

Only a few people EVER had simultaneous clearance across all of these agencies:

NSA, CIA, DIA, NRO, NIMA, DOE, DOJ, FBI, the Treasury, the White House, and others

Notable: Pres. and CEO of Las Vegas Investment Co. Sentenced to 50 years for Running $1.5bil Ponzi Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-and-ceo-las-vegas-investment-company-sentenced-50-years-prison-running-15-billion

Notable: Paul Sperry: NSA missing from POTUS memo directing cooperation with Barr

https://www.lawfareblog.com/presidential-memorandum-barr-review

https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1131773100222296064?s=21

Notable: Gorka: "Watch in the next two days the rats, the hyenas start to eat each other"

"I knew this day would come."

Say what you will about his Q-denial and him being Fake MAGA,

Gorka says, "Watch in the next two days the rats, the hyenas start to eat each other.

The Fun and Games have begun.

Sebastian Gorka DrG

@SebGorka

It has begun

@realDonaldTrump has unleashed his secret weapon.

In the next few days the conspirators will begin to tear at each other.

Stayed tuned friends:

http://SebGorka.com

https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1131769310588932096

Notable: Former FEC Chair: First Amendment Responsible For More ‘Violent Hate Crimes’ Than Terrorism

Former FEC Chair: First Amendment Responsible For More ‘Violent Hate Crimes’ Than Terrorism

A “libertarian interpretation” of the First Amendment is responsible for more “violent hate crime” in the United States than terrorism, a former Federal Election Commission chair claimed Thursday. “The libertarian interpretation of the 1st Amendment has permitted a huge spike in violent hate crimes in the US – many more than foreign attacks,” former FEC Chair Ann Ravel wrote on Twitter.

Ravel linked to a story noting a statistic from the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League, which found that 78% of the 50 U.S. murders related to extremism in 2018 were carried out by white supremacists. The story also noted the FBI has approximately 5,000 open terrorism investigations around the world, of which 850 are in the U.S. Ravel, who is running as a Democrat for a seat in the California Senate, did not say how she would modify free-speech rights to address the issue, though her record provides some indication. During her 2013-17 tenure as a commissioner on the FEC, Ravel sought to limit the kind of political content users could place on websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Critics said the efforts were aimed at stifling conservative websites, especially the Drudge Report, which Ravel faulted for death threats she received online.

Before joining the FEC, Ravel chaired the California Fair Political Practices Commission, where she led an effort to crack down on bloggers who advocated for or against political candidates. More recently, Democrats have railed against online speech for allegedly encouraging the perpetrators of mass shootings, though Ravel made no mention of a March mosque attack that killed 49 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The perpetrator in that case streamed the first 17 minutes of his attack on Facebook Live; it was subsequently posted to several other sites. Telecom companies in New Zealand blocked customers from accessing many of those smaller websites after the attack, but never extended the ban to Facebook.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/23/takala-first-amendment-terrorism/

Notable: >>6574843, >>6575355 Dan Coats & Dina Haspel

>>6574269 (LB)

>>6574759 (LB)

Why Trump Is Going After Dan Coats, Not Gina Haspel

Notable: Was Samantha Power a Soros loyalist?

Samantha Power was a Soros loyalist? Very interesting…

https://twitter.com/FKTVis/status/1131762445612138496

Notable: DJT tweet & Q 35: "IT IS TIME"

>>6574784

open

it is time

Notable: Marines STONEWALL (@Snowden connection)

Marines STONE WALL

@SNOWDEN connection

https://twitter.com/11thmeu/status/1117140460152283136?s=19

Notable: Employees Of 'Sexting-Central' Snapchat Spied On Users

Employees Of 'Sexting-Central' Snapchat Spied On Users

Employees at social media giant Snap have been abusing internal tools for accessing user data in order to spy on Snapchat users, according to an investigative report by Motherboard, which interviewed multiple current and former employees and viewed internal Snap communications.

"employees have used data access processes for illegitimate reasons to spy on users, according to two former employees." -Motherboard

Snapchat, which boasts over 186 million users, is a mobile app for Android and iOS devices which allows people to send 'self-destructing' photos or videos to another person. The 'snap' can be set to expire within a few seconds of the receiver opening it, or the sender can elect not to delete it at all.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-23/employees-sexting-central-snapchat-spied-users

Notable: SEAL admiral who commanded bin Laden raid says no one should be pardoned for war crimes

SEAL admiral who commanded bin Laden raid says no one should be pardoned for war crimes

Retired Adm. William McRaven said Thursday that anyone convicted of a war crime should not receive a pardon from President Trump. “We are a nation of laws. And one of the laws that the military always follows is the law of armed conflict. So if someone has been found guilty of violating the law of armed conflict and committing a war crime, I think it is a very, very slippery slope if we start pardoning individuals like that,” McRaven said in an appearance on CNN. The former SEAL commander's comments follow reports that Trump plans to pardon multiple military members charged or convicted of war crimes.

McRaven, who oversaw the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, has not ruled out a potential run for president. "Yeah, there was. I guess you never say never. But the fact of the matter is, I absolutely have no plans to run for president," he said. McRaven added that if “somebody is interested in my support in a policy world” he might reconsider his plans.

Trump attacked the admiral in November for being a Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton "backer." He also said McRaven was slow in getting bin Laden. “Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn’t it have been nice?” Trump said.

Retired Gen. Martin Dempsey also attacked Trump’s plans to pardon war criminals. “Absent evidence of innocence or injustice the wholesale pardon of US servicemembers accused of war crimes signals our troops and allies that we don’t take the Law of Armed Conflict seriously. Bad message. Bad precedent. Abdication of moral responsibility. Risk to us,” Dempsey said Tuesday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/seal-admiral-who-commanded-bin-laden-raid-says-no-one-should-be-pardoned-for-war-crimes

Notable: Trump Seeks to Hand Border Wall Construction to North Dakota Firm

Trump Seeks to Hand Border Wall Construction to North Dakota Firm

Under normal circumstances, the construction project should be awarded through a contest to the company with the best offer, but Trump appears eager to cut through bureaucracy to get the job done.

US President Trump wants to build that wall — and it should be cheap and fast. And it appears like he already found the perfect men for the job: a North Dakota construction company called Fisher Industries.

Normally, the process should go through a tender with several bidders. However, Trump seems to be willing to change the rules and offer the contract to Fisher directly, believing the company can do the job faster and cheaper than competitors, according to a Washington Post report.

"The President is one of the country's most successful builders and knows better than anyone how to negotiate the best deals," White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders said. "He wants to make sure we get the job done under budget and ahead of schedule."

The company claims it has a patent-pending construction method that would make wall construction much faster and cheaper than its competitor, Washington Post report says.

The mysterious method has been tested by Senator Kevin Cramer, who visited the company's HQ in North Dakota during his 2018 Senate campaign. Back at the time, Cramer posted a photo of himself driving an excavator.

"Here at Fisher Industries in Dickinson ND, I tested just how easy it is to install a panel of wall myself," Cramer wrote on Twitter.

Speaking about Trump's involvement in the Border Wall construction project, Cramer praised the president for his organizational skills.

"Good for him. It's why he is the president of the United States. He knows a thing or two about building big projects," Cramer said. "This is why he's president."

According to Cramer, Trump was elected to "cut through Washington's entrenched bureaucracy."

Fisher is also being promoted by Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a senior advisor to the President. Being deeply involved in the wall construction project, Kushner personally investigated why the US Army Corps of Engineers sought to favour other companies over Fisher. According to the Washington Post, initially, Fisher was rejected because its proposed wall project was of inferior quality.

After some pressure from the White House, then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen demanded the company make changes in their project proposal so that they could bid for the contract.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201905241075288216-trump-border-wall-firm/

Notable: "Former Rep. Tom Coleman (R-Mo.) has penned an op-ed calling for President Trump to be impeached

Desperate D-party is burning all their undercover moles/collaborators. Amash and Coleman, thanks for showing us who your paymasters and controllers are.

"Former GOP lawmaker pens op-ed calling for Trump to be impeached "

"Former Rep. Tom Coleman (R-Mo.) has penned an op-ed calling for President Trump to be impeached.

Coleman's Thursday op-ed in the Kansas City Star comes as calls for impeachment heat up from both Democratic lawmakers and at least one Republican, with Coleman amplifying Rep. Justin Amash's (R-Mich) comments from over the weekend."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445351-former-gop-lawmaker-pens-op-ed-calling-for-trump-to-be-impeached

Notable: >>6574966 DJK tweet: "Intelligence Agencies were used against an American president."

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131769241651302401

Notable: Japan remains world's biggest creditor at end of 2018

Japan remains world's biggest creditor at end of 2018

TOKYO (Kyodo) – The net balance of external assets held by the Japanese government, companies and individual investors stood at 341.56 trillion yen ($3.11 trillion) at the end of 2018, remaining the world's largest for the 28th consecutive year, the Finance Ministry said Friday.

The figure, up 3.7 percent from a year earlier and the second-largest amount on record, reflected increased overseas investment by Japanese companies, according to the ministry.

In the reporting year, Germany was second with 260.28 trillion yen, followed by China's 236.08 trillion yen.

Among components, direct investment in the United States stood at a record-high 55.63 trillion yen and that in China was also the largest on record at 13.66 trillion yen.

Japan's overseas assets edged up 0.5 percent to 1,018.38 trillion yen, up for the 10th straight year, supported by mergers and acquisitions by Japanese firms and investment by institutional investors in foreign stocks and bonds.

Overseas liabilities fell 1.1 percent to 676.48 trillion yen, down for the first time in nine years, in line with a drop in prices of Japanese stocks held by foreign investors.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190524/p2g/00m/0bu/041000c

Notable: >>6574854, >>6575018, >>6575426 Q Proof: May 23 – "Now comes the pain 23"

>>6574854

YEP

Notable: DJT tweet on Twitter shutting down Conservative Voices

DJT

IT IS TIME!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131764098289602560